HAVANA, Cuba.- The television, print and digital media linked to the Cuban government are constructing an alternative version —and without support— of the massacre that occurred in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.
More than 410 people died in Bucha at the hands of the Russian army, according to the Ukrainian authorities, but the Cuban official media defend the version that everything is “a staging”, despite the fact that the evidence indicates the contrary and points to the person responsible. to Russia.
For example, on April 4, in the main broadcast of the National News of Cuban Television, the presenter Yisel Filiu affirmed that the massacre was a montage by the West.
“Obviously this is another farce being organized to attack Russia,” he said.
The same thing happened on April 5, during the broadcast of the Mesa Redonda program. The journalist Oliver Zamora Oria said that everything is a lie of the Ukrainian government and assured that in the Ukrainian regions taken by the Russian army the population feels safer.
“In the areas occupied by the Russian army, the Ukrainian population feels much safer and receives this food and other essential products,” said the journalist.
The digital site Cubadebate also reported that the massacre was a “staging”. In an article titled “Lavrov describes the situation in the Ukrainian city of Bucha as ‘an attack of forgeries,’” the site reproduced statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian presidential spokesman Dmitri Preskov. The information was published on April 4 and does not include any data that questions the Russian version.
The Granma newspaper also joined the wave of misinformation about the massacre. On April 6, he published an article entitled “Bucha or the fabricated lie”, in which press agencies and large Western media outlets are accused —without mentioning their names— of reproducing false information such as, according to the author, the Bucha massacre .
“What happened in the Ukrainian city of Bucha is a fabricated lie that, unfortunately, by repeating it so often, poisons the international community against Russia, and strengthens Washington’s plan to prolong the war to sell more weapons and obtain juicy sums of money”, says the article.
Russian liability evidence
The Russian version that everything was a setup, reproduced by Castro’s propaganda, has already been denied by various media around the world.
For example, Russian authorities insist that the photographs of civilian bodies on the city streets were staged after the Russian army left the city on March 30. However, satellite photos released by New York Times they show bodies in the streets even three weeks before the Ukrainian army regained control of Bucha.
the german newspaper Der Spiegel It also published information about recordings between Russian soldiers, intercepted by German intelligence, in which they talk about the death of civilians. For example, they narrate how they had shot a person who was riding a bicycle and how they shot civilians after interrogating them.
New York Times He also confirmed the veracity of a video recorded with a drone showing how Russian soldiers open fire on a cyclist. In the audiovisual it can be seen that the person gets off the bicycle and the armored vehicles fire several times in his direction.
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is collecting evidence of possible war crimes committed by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Bucha, and the International Criminal Court (ICC) has opened an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Russian military in Ukraine.
**Note: This text was produced in collaboration with IWPR.
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